Evaluation of Minnesota's Felony Sentencing Guidelines, 1978-1984Miethe, TeranceMoore, Charles A.felony offensesplea negotiationsprosecutionsentencingsentencing guidelinesICPSR.XVII.ENACJD.VThis data collection gauges the effects of the Minnesota
felony sentencing guidelines on prosecutional charging practices, plea
negotiations, and sentencing decisions. The collection provides
primary sources for evaluating the statewide changes in the
determinants of charging and sentencing decisions after the sentencing
guidelines were enacted. The statewide defendants file (Part 2)
contains information on the offender's demographic characteristics
(age, sex, race, and marital and employment status), year of
disposition, descriptions of the convicted offense, criminal history
score, type of sentence imposed, the presumptive disposition and
duration of confinement, dispositional location in the sentencing grid
of the guidelines, and types of dispositional departure from
presumptive sentences. Variables in the eight-county sample data (Part
1) are similar to those available in the statewide data. However, the
county sample data contain additional information on characteristics
of cases and case processing variables such as whether the defendant
was convicted of multiple behavioral incidents and various types of
plea bargaining.2006-03-30aggregate data923510.3886/ICPSR09235.v1sentencing guidelines worksheets, state judicial
information system summaries (SJIS), Minnesota's Department of
Correction files, court transcripts, and various reportsMinnesotaUnited States ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial
3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).